Landing a plane on the deck of aircraft carrier is one of the most dangerous and amazing daily activity facing pilots and deck crew. This amazing training film graphically depicts various aircraft landing disasters.  It also instructs pilots how to avoid them and what emergency ejection or ditching procedures to follow in case they do occur.  A barrier landing, called for when a pilot has a landing gear problem, is shown as is the set-up of the barrier.  Many crashes in this film were captured by the Pilot Landing Aid Television system, known as PLAT, so quality is not optimal.  While the image are low resolution, they enable incidents to be studied in some detail.  The impact and the lessons learned from these plane crashes are dramatic and serve as excellent training for new pilots.  Ships seen in the film are the nuclear carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65) and the conventional USS Boxer (CV-21).  Planes seen in the film are:  F-8 Crusader amongst many others.

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